interstate aviation committee publishers new transcripts of recordings of the plane crash that killed president lech kaczynski as the polish parliament reviews the official investigation report. is a pull through of the middle east peace process and will continue its efforts to settle the conflict president dmitri medvedev said i don't mean with the king of jordan is the ground stop here toward the region. superpowers in tool does the chinese president mean this is the us counterpart anxieties sweeps washington over nugent's hols growing influence on the global stage.

a very warm welcome gee this is live from moscow i'm alice habits russia has released the full transcript of the air traffic controllers conversation with the crew of the plane that crashed last april in the west of the country killing a polish president lech kaczynski and ninety five others well it shows the ground surface is more of the crew than the conditions on the airfield were not conducive to landing and propose several times that they land out another field this comes after playing the russian controllers and criticized the final report all the interstate commission as incomplete that probe found the polish crews lack of experience as well as pressure from officials to land the cause of the crash poland's parliament will meet later on wednesday to discuss a final report a lot even if the now we is keeping across the. for us we do know that the

parliament will be reviewing this report by the interstate aviation committee in detail of course it found that inexperienced polish crew bad weather as well as pressure from high ranking officials on board the flight all ultimately led to the tragedy so far we've had mixed reaction from poland we understand they're going to try to get on the same page and find consensus from the prime minister donald to use a role in simply diplomatic reaction from the current president borderline anti russian rhetoric and from the late president's family blake blaming russia for the crash we've heard from experts and have understood from reaction that there seems to be a bit of an internal battle inside the country as to how they should officially react to this report but it is expected from these hints that we've had that the reaction could be less than positive but we heard from the polish interior minister as well as other high ranking polish officials on tuesday and basically they're

looking to put the blame with russian air traffic controllers now that's despite international aviation laws which basically state that any final decision to land lies with the pilot and his crew but also that air traffic controllers can never deny a landing they can only advise to land at an alternate airport which we know from the cockpit recordings that was done several times in this incident in reaction to what we heard out of poland on tuesday the interstate aviation committee took an unprecedented move they published new transcripts of recordings that took place during that flight here's a piece of one of the conversations that was revealed. what are the weather conditions fog four hundred metres visibility temperature and pressure please temperatures plus two pressure seven forty five seven four five there's no opportunity for landing thank you but if it's possible we'll try a landing approach weather permitting if not we'll proceed to a second circle one a one when you have enough fuel for a second circle after the landing approach yes we will making

a landing approach is the captain's decision at the height of one hundred meters you have to make a decision minsk and vitebsk will be requested for a sidetrack have you ever made a landing at a military airfield of course polish one a one at one hundred metres be ready to proceed to a second circle yes sir flaps and wheels down high control horizon make a second circle make a second circle make a second circle where is it make a second circle one zero one. cool emergency crews hopefully that will add to poland who perhaps accepting this report we do know that the committee is confident that they have the evidence to prove that their findings are accurate and thorough and that's also been deemed internationally by experts here on the world the family of the late polish president lech kaczynski has denied all the findings of the interstate aviation community and pretty much blatantly said that they believe russia is responsible for the death of lech kaczynski his son in law to be more specific claims that the plane crash was

a planned as to nation in revenge for future anti russian rhetoric also to prevent him from being reelected but many experts around the world that we've been speaking to in the past couple of weeks believe that first of all not all of poland believes that second of all that people in the country who do support these kind of accusations obviously have had a hard time trying to break with old stereotypes of russia as the enemy and it's certainly hoped at least diplomatically that that won't be what the polish parliament concludes today as they review this official report. well ahead of the poem and room and the end aide to the right than to miss it this is the poles to accept the truth about the tragedy. and you up for it is hard for post to handle the difficult truth and this is a difficult truth of course are looking for some greens in these records which help us deceive some responsibility away from most of the situation with three elements

that make it hard to face it psychological difficult you know it's the fact that it occurs within the context of polish russian relations plus there is an internal political war in poland with these things do not allow us to speak about this issue objective nor present any solid conclusions but the well aviation security expert chris yates says poland's independent investigation cannot possibly find any new facts about the tragedy the final report has already detail that. the interstate aviation committee as far as i can see. a perfect job of of this investigation all of the evidence we have before us now i can't see that if the polish side is going to decide to carry out another investigation this is the results will be any different from what we've seen the evidence of the evidence it is hard evidence it is factual and you know we simply can't change that with yet another investigation

into the events you know we're talking about very clear instructions here from air traffic controllers to the pilots that there were no conditions for the landing the weather conditions were such that the airport was below operating the pilots on board the aircraft should have taken note of that but quite clearly some form of pressure was brought to bear so the psychological pressure or suchlike caused the pilots to take what amounts to a rush decision to attempt to make a landing that airfield on that. you know with coming up in just a few minutes a muscled media find out why i began. training behind many african countries in terms of rights freedom. one of the roots mission so the issue with the song. i could still simply.

say peerless propose a. reason which is for a holy this along with thousands of russian small. president dmitri medvedev the middle east tour has reached jordan where talks have been fueled by potential energy deals he also spent time in the palestinian autonomy where he reiterated moscow's commitment to palestinian state with the capital in east jerusalem. but it's following the visit for us. of course jordan for russia is more than just a middle east partner in this region they have a very close very special relationship a visit is part of major breakthroughs for the russian to make nomic summit which is due to take place in march this year and the two leaders will see them talk how they're going to both stricken amik ties their cooperation and added to spirit

today they also discussed plans for the construction of a nuclear power plant in jordan which several countries are beating to build and russia among those countries but of course all of that was on the sidelines of talks on the major on the top priority subject regional developments in the middle east and the israeli palestinian conflict also the visit of the russian president to jordan point sides with the orthodox church celebrations of it be funny this is one of the twelve major orthodox holy days and these side kilometers outside of amman the capital of jordan where we are now is the place where thousands of christians flogging every year because it is believed to be the site were joined by jesus christ this is the first stand to make from it very is making pilgrimage to the site of literally that if it has reverberated one in palestine russia's position on the conflict which actually hasn't changed since nine hundred eighty one band soviet union recognize palestine as an independent state today dmitry

medvedev was looking for a month from the middle east peace process is obviously stalled after three other members of the middle east quartet washington brussels and the united nations have so far been unable to persuade israel to make any form of concessions israelis continue to build settlements in the israeli occupied west bank in reaction to that palestinians refused to return to negotiations and russia is very keen to get engaged in talks with both israel and palestine and palestinian president mahmoud abbas in an exclusive interview to all she said that russia had very good. chances to become a key. negotiator mother. russia will really recognize palestine in one thousand nine hundred eight it was also recognized by ninety other countries what do we expect from russia now there are two things the first concerns the middle east quartet it's necessary to do everything possible to boost its activity so that it's similar to the role of say the european union we would like

russia to convince the us because it's the only country that is against the final statement containing new conclusions it will help us to have a better substantiated discussion with israel while promoting the peace process russia could also insist on its position in stopping the settlement activity in its relationship with the u.s. and israel and on getting back to the negotiations table i think that russia is ready for that that's what president medvedev has reaffirmed during this visit. this visit which came several weeks ahead of the middle east quartet meeting in munich that's definitely been already adopted a historic visit and has there's been a great deal of applause for it. well the chinese president hu jintao was in the u.s. for a four day state this would discuss and expected with barack obama over economics trade and human rights some say the u.s. leaders on the press had to clarify whether the countries are partners or probably

involved or foreign affairs columnist simon tisdall says u.s. officials one more child away from challenging china this time. i think barack obama has a lot to do to persuade the american public and the american congress that he's sticking up to china he was accused when he went to beijing in two thousand and nine of cowtown and that was a bit unfair but he didn't get very much achieved and he's had his whole succession of administration officials in the past week for being trotting out a whole shopping list of demands or requests or wish lists for chinese action and a whole range of areas as you mentioned in your introduction on the economy on the security on human rights and other issues which are which seem to matter more to the obama than they do to president hu american press reports white house officials say that obama's going to be much tougher this time while they're in on a very lavish reception for mr who is behind the scenes in the much tougher push in some of these issues particularly trade practices access to the chinese market and

so on but whether he'll get anything substantive out of it in the short is i think questionable. well you find out more on the chinese president's visit to washington on our website at alton dot com and while there i want to take a look at them available to receive got mine done at the moment find out why i feel for the church official the facts in a sense of russian women as inappropriate accusing them of dressing like strippers . on why there may soon be not much resting in peace in the trees planted them into the life and soul of swiss society. now media freedom in the european union is in decline that's the finding of an

international organization defending the rights of journalists its annual review suggest that in some countries reporters are under pressure from their governments and are often forced to reveal less force is one such country into latvia and cesky met some journalists in the baltic states. with professional persistence latvian t.v. reporter. interviews a local politician in twenty years as a journalist she has done hundreds but one of them got her in serious trouble an expose on a security breach in latvia state revenue body and that with police in her apartment was forced they opened their doors and went into my flat and then they showed that they had a security search they had a search warrant one say took my computer and information and i got they also acquired information all of the my information sources which by a law i am allowed to protect and that was the biggest problem for me as a journalist because i could not protect my information sources it was

a story shock to many in law to be a country more used to press scrutiny just a couple of years ago latvia boasted one of the highest freedom of press ratings in all of europe being placed seventh on the annual reporters without borders index but for one reason or another in twenty ten this country is down on the very same list this incident is far from an isolated case say experts this one received a lot of public attention but it is not the only one a school of from the current spills. current school an economist was charged by the secret police and she was actually arrested for two days for disseminating alternative opinions about the future of the local currency. devaluation a lot was imminent we are losing the last. support the alternative information the liberal information. among the trust saltless in this country lotta

love is and the other journalist who defined the insists freedom of the press is not being deliberately strangled he believes the reason is down to economics. newspapers when ben crabb just to the recession hit latvia others turned to their owners for money to survive so the. started single handedly shifting the paper's editorial policies to their own preference simply for the sake of hurting a healthy dollar in their has directly heat of press freedom and. there are other theories however some believe that latvia is spiriting down the freedom of the press writings simply because the people behind the index are biased but not go believe that as long as nobody has been punished over the forceful search of her apartment concerns about pressure on the press may not be groundless. ski all see reporting from brega in latvia now it was built over seventeen years ago for the soviet ruling in losing became a symbol of stalin's era

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christians are celebrating the pepperoni a holiday which marks the baptism of jesus. plunging into frozen lakes across the continent with temperatures plunging to minus fifteen degrees celsius it takes courage to brave the icy waters as his piece all of it discover it. in this edition of the old little church here in russia the nineteenth of january is the date of the epitome now what that means to people who worship the orthodox church is that was the date that jesus was baptized into the christian faith now to celebrate that here jump into the freezing cold rivers of russia now here in moscow where i am at least could a hole in the ice on the mosque of all river to make sure that bush has and people can jump into the river and celebrate the feast day of the epiphany no it's not just a religious thing this is now become something of a health kick if you will the people that want to come into the water believe that

the the icy temperatures can have some health properties for you can make you feel better in yourself the way it works in the religious sense is that it will tice you again it will cleanse you of your sins and it will set you up for the new year all of the blessing over the ice who will buy your priesthood essentially into a fund a simulation of the. chases christ because it's a place called take my room turn it getting in the world that's it's about money miss fifteen here the air temperature in moscow plus four apparently the temperature of the world is so i guess it's going to be a little bit wilma there's nothing left to do now but we'll get him. see how this course. who. has. already. see that the first day pulled out how it went

a road mission so if the russian wind is uncool try you're there exists and. i could tell you something very exhilarated right now. please share the assy moscow. ok time now for group to get some of the major headlines from around the world this hour and a suicide bomb of. explosives has crashed into a security headquarters in central iraq killing over thirteen people more than sixty four others wounded it happened in the ethnically mixed city of baquba north of the capital baghdad is the fact there was five blast in the long two days on tuesday almost fifty people were killed after a bomber attacked a line of police recruits in the city of cleats. these former detainees are devalued as been brought before a court on charges of corruption bezel meant the charges relate to days fifteen

years in office until one thousand nine hundred six and judges may take up to three months to decide if there's enough evidence for a trial known as a baby don't devalue has also been included in the past a good ring of torture in killings of political enemies unexpectedly returned to the country after twenty four years in exile and far less. now the u.s. with its insatiable addiction to oil has been trying to diversify its energy sources and natural gas is one alternative cleaner burning and cheap with as much money to be made from it but the extraction process requires chemicals to be pumped into the ground and they're seeping into water supplies well this has spawned the anger of many as christine present of found out. first there was big oil. heavily relied on by big boys big toys and big business. now it seems that big gas is next with scenes like this popping up

all over the country where companies drill for natural gas by fracturing the shale below the earth. and extracting the natural gas from it it's told by many as the best option compared to coal and oil natural gas story is an american most of our oil shortage now are sixty five percent of their cities it's green burning so it's greener than either coal or. it's affordable this is lee fuller of the independent petroleum association of america speaking on this panel at the heritage foundation to protect his industry and its huge profits from regulation and oversight he says public disclosure of the toxic chemicals pumped into the earth will only lead to public misunderstanding and panic people can be scared of chemicals if you give them enough fear they can be responsive to fracking became exempt from the federal safe drinking water act of the energy policy act of

two thousand and five largely with the help of then vice president dick cheney the former c.e.o. of halliburton a corporation deeply involved in the fracking industry many lawmakers here on capitol hill have fought to try to get the fracking industry regulated but time and time again they've faced fierce opposition from other lawmakers and lobbyists and whose best interest it is to have those industry secrets kept hidden so why regulate this practice especially when there's been so much talk about the shale you nair's and others who have benefited from natural gas drilling i've got a copy of the check. oh my look at that four hundred thirty four thousand dollars just like that and it fell out of sky but less has been said . the polluted drinking water of hundreds of other people people like pot for not only endemic pennsylvania this is a catastrophe you know we're basically living at ground zero for

a catastrophe and everyone is overlooking it because they're listening to the gas well companies who are saying everything is fine this is great some residents save their water to show others what they're dealing with others say they can light it on fire and in louisiana seventeen cows grazing near a drilling site were found dead after the fracking fluid runoff got into their drinking water so how much power does big business really have. when it's the oil and gas industry it seems they will allow nothing to stand in the way of their quest for a freer hand and a quicker profit here in washington christine for r t. i as a way of a new success. go away the business about next. welcome to our business program. the recent deal between b.p.

and ross naf could spark investor interest in other state assets under the agreement the two companies will carry out exploration and russia's arctic shelf artie's tom barton is now at last night headquarters following the latest developments hello tom. either how are you the head of ross knapp has spoken to the needier today what did he have to say. well ross ness bosses have said that they're very happy about the deal they think in fact that it could change the whole world of oil exploration in the whole oil industry it will certainly be quite an achievement if they can manage in the predicted five to seven years to struck oil from under the frozen waters of the of the of the arctic sea up there the car a sea north of russia but apart so little caution also noted there they said that they were quite pleased that the first billion dollars of all the exploration money is being floated by b.p. because they have far more experience and greater technology in order to drill in

these areas. tell us more about the deal itself. the deal is quite historic in some ways it's a huge share swap being done between ross now and b b and it's also this great joint venture to try and explore and find some of these huge amounts of oil possibly a fifth of the world's reserves that are estimated to be under the frozen arctic waters north of russia they are exploring an area up in the car a c. is thought to be about the size of the u.k. north seas oil deposits and b.p. is going to take on the initial challenge of trying to explore that b.p. when we spoke. yes today said that they were very confident about so if you will but initially that's. what we've agreed is the.

complete exploration license obligations that are in the los and is not for the three books. there is we expect there to be in the neighborhood of a billion dollars the first billion dollars will be financed by b.p. and that will be paid out of the proceeds from an exploration development. artie's tom barton thank you. and european stocks fell on wednesday as losses for a semi holding a weight on the technology sector in the wake of the firm's results in contrast shares of pearson saw a six per cent after the media group lifted its guidance energy stocks were on the rise in london with faster energy up one percent after losses seen in the prior session while b.p. rose point seven percent. and in russia russian stocks are higher this hour both the r.t.s. and my sex are trading up on the day energy majors are helping the indices.

and rosneft is gaining on both the bourses after striking a deal with b.p. on the arctic drilling the biggest gainer is truck producer come on over sixteen percent after signing an agreement with dime learned to set up a production line. telecoms losing over eight percent. and that's offered news from this for this hour but you can always find more stories on our web site that's r t dot com slash business stay with us.

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